Showbiz History: Bicycle Thieves, Fur Bikinis, and a Costume Design King
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 9:30AM 6 random things that happened on this day, November 24th, in showbiz history...
1948 Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (also known as The Bicycle Thief) is released in Italian theaters. It will take a few years for it to travel the world (global distribution is slow now and was even slower back then) but it will become an international hit the following year and receive the Globe, the Oscar, the BAFTA, and the NYFCC prizes for 'foreign film' in the 1949/1950 awards season. The National Board of Review went one further and just named it "Best Film" period, the second consecutive year they'd given that honor to an Italian film (the first non-English language winner had been Roberto Rossellini's Paisan the previous year)
1956 Giant released in movie theaters the month after glitzy premieres in NYC and LA
1966 Wet, fur-bikini'd international sex-symbol Raquel Welch arrives in One Million Years BC ...